Festival Lead

1 week ago

Ottawa, Canada Spartan Race Canada Full time

**Position: Festival Lead**

**Location: Onsite**

**Department: Production-Festival**

**Reporting to: Festival Manager & Race Director**

**Company**

A worldwide leader in endurance sports, Spartan is a high-growth, international organization that owns and operates mass-participation athletic events under the brands Spartan®, Tough Mudder®, Spartan Trail®, Hurricane Heat, and DEKA. Furthermore, we offer numerous related fitness, health and nutrition services and products. With 250 events across more than 40 countries on six continents, Spartan is the world's leading extreme wellness and endurance brand. Spartan caters to individuals looking to test their physical limits through obstacle course racing and change their frame of reference for what they can accomplish. From everyday people looking to get off the couch and lead an active lifestyle, to elite endurance athletes who seek the ultimate physical test, there is room for everyone.

**Benefits of working at Spartan**:

- Get paid to travel throughout Canada and put on life changing events
- All inclusive travel expenses included
- Meals and accommodations included
- Break away from your typical 9-5 and experience working outdoors with like minded individuals
- Experience the rewarding, high paced environment of event production
- Culture of camaraderie, accountability and empowerment

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Unloading and organizing thecontents of the Festival Trailer within Base Camp
- Gather and verify inventory of tents from previous race and prepare for distribution
- Coordinate with Festival Manager and Race Director the layout of festival to ensure all activations, tents and fence lines fit within the specific guidelines and limitations of the venue
- Supervise and lead the assembly of all Spartan owned tents (20x20’s, 10x20’s, 10x10’s)
- Transport (operate a skid) zone supplies as tents and zones are assembled
- Maintain a high tempo management style to ensure the productivity and efficiency among staff is optimal during build week and race day(s)
- Supervise the distribution of toilets and handle any questions as instructed by Festival Manager
- Manage volunteers and support staff in an efficient and deliberate manner through delegation of tasks.
- Create/oversee zone specific fence lines
- Have all materials necessary for support staff to set up zones and distributed from base camp to zones
- Be available to run supplies and volunteers to areas of need in festival, both build week, race day(s), and load out
- Be able to maneuver through festival on race day with an understanding of what needs to be done at varying times (volunteer switchover, staff breaks, checking power sources, directing volunteers to areas of need)
- Supervise and lead the taking down and storage of all Spartan owned tents
- Supervise the cleaning and packing of zone materials into zone specific crates
- Operate and load all festival materials back into the festival trailer after being provided a load plan by the Festival Manager.
- *This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, however, it does not restrict other tasks that may be assigned._

**Qualifications**:

- Have experience as a manager in a high pace environment
- Have experience operating machinery, or be willing to learn
- Be prepared and comfortable with working outside in all severe weather situations
- Be physically capable of working long hours 10+ days consecutively
- Be willing to learn the processes set in place, while maintaining an analytical and problem solving mindset to improve these procedures
- Must be able to manage high volumes of people with an efficient approach to accomplishing mission critical tasks

**Qualities required of all Spartan team members**:
Spartan Race is a high-performance organization, and successful team members must therefore possess a strong work ethic and hands-on approach to business. We are innovative, create inventive solutions, and are exceptionally service minded. Team members at Spartan change lives, and have a passion for the organization. Paramount to our organization is the maturity to embrace ambiguity and ability to adapt according to the market and the continuing innovation of the organization.
- Ability to hold one-self accountable and an aptitude for prioritizing multiple projects
- Strong sense of teamwork with the ability to foster relationships
- Proactive, solutions-oriented; capability to identify efficiencies and decrease costs while maintaining a quality workplace environment and product
- Collegial approach to a business environment and cooperative work style
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract, Seasonal
Contract length: 4 months

**Salary**: $250.00 per day

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- event: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

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